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Subject: CRIPPLES
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an'
Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


BLACK LIGHTNING, by ARTHUR SZE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A blind girl
Last Line: Lightning.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


CRIPPLE, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once when I saw a cripple
Last Line: The clear silent processional of stars.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


CRIPPLED, by MARION PELTON GUILD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beethoven deaf, and milton blind!
Last Line: Crippled or no, we dare the race!
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Milton, John (1608-1674); Music & Musicians; Physical Disabilities; Wellesley College; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


DISABLED, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark
Last Line: And put him into bed? Why don't they come?
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; First World War


EMBLEMS OF EXILE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hunchback in the park with halo of pigeons
Last Line: Which the beggarman mind accepts but cannot reconcile
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Exiles; Hunchbacks; Physical Disabilities; Ugliness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


HOW STUMP STOOD IN THE WATER, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ice had many sons. 'find me my food!' he shouted
Last Line: On his own feet, holding his life in his hands
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


HUNCHBACK GIRL: SHE THINKS OF HEAVEN, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father, it is surely a blue place
Last Line: Proper myself, princess of properness.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


MEXICAN NURSERY RHYME: 9. CHANT FOR A STUMPED TOE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He may be lame
Last Line: He's dear to me
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped;handicaps;physically Challenged;cripples


MUTTERINGS OVER THE CRIB OF A DEAF CHILD, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How will he hear the bell at school
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Babies; Deafness; Labor & Laborers; Physical Disabilities; Infants; Work; Workers; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


OG MANDINO, by GEORGE BOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Today, upon a bus
Last Line: I’m blessed, indeed! The world is mine!
Subject(s): Blessings; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


RHAPSODY OF THE DEAF MUTE, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The expert said: 'all right. You needn't come any more'
Last Line: And nothing can disturb the conversation.
Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan
Subject(s): Deafness; Physical Disabilities; Physicians; Speech Disorders; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples; Doctors; Stuttering; Muteness


SIR W. TRELOAR'S DINNER FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This is an ancient england in the new
Last Line: Christmas and christ profoundly understood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Charity; Children; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dinners & Dining; England; Physical Disabilities; Philanthropy; Childhood; English; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


STUMPFOOT ON 42ND STREET, by LOUIS SIMPSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A negro sprouts from the pavement like an asparagus
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


SWITCH-HITTERS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How many home runs / mickey mantle hit
Last Line: Up and over the fence, a home run
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said
Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me."
Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE CITY OF THE OLESHA FRUIT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside the window past the two hills there is the city
Last Line: Somewhere inside the mind.
Subject(s): Cities; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Physical Disabilities; Weather; Writing & Writers; Urban Life; Male-female Relations; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE CRIPPLED BEGGAR SPEAKS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, peter was shaggy, his garments were coarse
Last Line: That he hadn't a penny that day!
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Kindness; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE CRIPPLED GIRL, THE ROSE, by DAVID FERRY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was as if a flower bloomed as if
Subject(s): Roses; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE FREAKS AT SPURGIN ROAD FIELD, by RICHARD HUGO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dim boy claps because the others clap
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm thist a little crippled boy, an' never goin' to grow
Last Line: "they's nary angel 'bout the place with ""curv'ture of the spine""!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Happiness; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Joy; Delight; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE LAME CHILD, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: He passed along our village street
Last Line: Along his crippled years!
Subject(s): Children; Physical Disabilities; Childhood; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE LEGLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My mind goes back to fumin wood, and how we stuck it out
Last Line: Lo! How it's silver-lined.
Subject(s): Legs; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE LITTLE CRIPPLE'S COMPLAINT, by ANN TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm a helpless cripple child
Last Line: Leaning in my easy-chair.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by LINDA GREGERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: She must have been thirteen or so, her nascent breasts
Subject(s): Teenagers; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming
Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave!
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE SIGHTLESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night a crash
Last Line: And our night is lost in the greater night.
Subject(s): Blindness; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind
Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day.
Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


TO THE DEFORMED X.R., by JOHN HALL (1627-1656)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As scriveners sometime delight to see
Last Line: Even hated by thy nurse deformity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE VOICE OF ONE BLIND, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blind, ah! Blind - it has come upon me now
Last Line: I am come nearer now.
Subject(s): Blindness; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


UPON A VERY DEFORMED GENTLEWOMAN, BUT OF A VOICE INCOMPARABLY SWEET, by THOMAS RANDOLPH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I chanc'd sweet lesbia's voice to hear
Last Line: Whilst she hath tongue, or I have eyes.
Subject(s): Physical Disabilities; Voices; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples


VICTORY STUFF, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What d'ye think, lad, what d'ye think
Last Line: Me that's wheeled in a chair.
Subject(s): Loss; Paris, France; Physical Disabilities; Survival; Victory; War; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples